URTU fights for Cranswick Country Foods recognition URTU IS TO
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ballot for industrial action by LGV drivers at Hull-based Cranswick Country Foods after the firm refused to recognise it as a union to represent its drivers.
The food supplier claimed that employees are covered by the GMB Union, which has negotiated terms for its on-site workers. However, URTU said drivers were not approached by GMB.
URTU added that drivers at the firm require a union with handson expertise in drivers' hours law and working time regulations.
URTU regional officer Graham Bird said: "This isn't a dispute about forcing the employer to make improvements to terms and conditions of employment, it is a dispute about the basic right to be represented. My members tell me that, in the main, Cranswick is a good employer, which makes it all the more disappointing that they have been forced to resort to the threat of industrial action in order to gain something to which every employee is morally and legally entitled."
Voting in the ballot ends tomorrow (31 May), with results expected shortly after. Cranswick Country Foods was unavailable to comment.